Research Methods and Selection
Employees who are rejected for a job but would have been successful employees (below predictor cutoff but above criterion cutoff)
What is a false negative?
The ultimate goal of training
What is training transfer?
Expression of an organization's values and meaning which is marked by artifacts in the environment, stories told, employee beliefs and attitudes, etc. This is pervasive and can drastically impact the success of an organization.
What is organizational culture?
Implied relationship between worker and organization. E.g., an informal promise of organization to develop an employee
What is the psychological contract?
Money kills the passion.
(Or...People have certain needs that if met result in intrinsic motivation, but extrinsic rewards can kill the intrinsic motivation.)
What is self-determination theory?
Extent to which results can be attributed to the variables investigated rather than to other possible explanations for the results
What is validity?
A performance rating scale that has behavioral examples of low and high performance on each performance dimension
What are Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales (BARS)?
A distinguishable set of two or more people who interact dynamically, interdependently, and adaptively toward a common and valued goal/objective/mission, who have each been assigned specific roles or functions to perform, and who have limited life span of membership. Also something that a group is NOT necessarily.
What is a team?
I stay at my job because they taught me how to use a computer and I owe them for that.
What is normative commitment?
I believe that I am able to complete this task. This is something that motivates me to persist in my effort to complete it.
What is self-efficacy?
When a selection method negatively effects protected group compared to majority group.
Selection ratio (# hired/# applied) for each group, multiple majority group's SR by .8.
What is adverse impact?
Arranging employees in a list from best to worst performance, but not necessarily knowing their actual level of performance or how far apart employees are in terms of performance.
What is the rank order approach to performance appraisal?
Part of an organization's social system that includes a shared perception of the environment.
What is organizational climate?
The benefits administrator rudely snapped at me and said "It's not my problem that you don't like your employee benefits," when I asked about where I could learn more about the benefits change. I do not like how I was treated!
What is interactional (in)justice? (interpersonal and informational)
Accounts for the difference between what an employee can do and what an employee will do
What is motivation?
The percentage of current employees with satisfactory performance
What is the base rate?
Information given to another employee about their performance. It may be positive or negative, formally or informally given.
What is feedback?
A match between the values and goals of an employee and their place of work that is often facilitated through onboarding
What is person-organization fit?
How organizations should ideally handle potential stressors
What is primary prevention/reducing stressors/elimination?
Leadership style all about rewards and punishments
What is transactional leadership?
Cognitive ability tests, personality inventories, specific knowledge and skill tests, situational judgment tests, computerized adaptive testing, structured interviews, work samples, assessment centers, physical testing, biodata, integrity tests, drug tests, polygraphs
What are selection tests/predictors of job performance?
Reaction- how do they feel about training (affective and *utility judgments*)
Learning- skills and knowledge gained
Behavioral- objective criteria/outcomes (producing more goods)
Results- ROI ($)—use utility analysis.
What are Kirkpatrick's criteria for training evaluation?
Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning
What are the stages of the team life cycle?
Theory posits that people appraise stressors before responding to them.
What is the transactional model of stress?
What is a critical component of the leadership process that is often not studied as much as leaders themselves?
Followers (characteristics, performance, reactions)